The midterm elections are 18 days away. From Fox News:
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The top issue of concern for voters heading into the midterms is government corruption, according to a Fox News poll. Eighty-eight percent of respondents said they were extremely or very concerned about the issue, ahead of inflation and high prices at 85%. |
- She broke the 11-day record held by Anthony Sacaramucci during Trump's first term.
- Social media users have joked in recent days about whether Zacharia would last “one Scaramucci” after her first press briefing Tuesday was heavily scrutinized. Bets were also being taken on the prediction market site Kalshiover when she would depart the role.
- Said Scaramucci: Records are made to be broken.
- ATTACKS on commercial shipping around the Strait of Hormuz have already reached a record monthly high just halfway through October, reinforcing evidence that Iran’s strategy is increasingly aimed at making the waterway unsafe for any vessel attempting passage without Tehran’s consent. At least 26 attacks or other security incidents involving commercial vessels have been recorded in the first 15 days of October, surpassing every previous monthly total since the US-Iran war began on February 28.
A larger question has to do with life in the universe and possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. Here is a video about the history of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
IMBd has a top 22 best alien movies of all time:
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- #1 Alien: Earth: Season 1 (8 episodes) (2025) 94/65
- #2 Aliens (1986) 93
- #3 Alien (1979) 93
- #4 Alien: Romolus (2024) 80
- #5 Prometheus (2012) 73
- #10 Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007) 12
- #1 Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- #2 ET the Extra-terrestrial (1982)
- #3 A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- #4 Jurassic Park (1993)
- #5 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- #6 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
- #8 Disclosure Day (2026) I will below review this movie.
- #10 War of the Worlds (2005)
- Before he retired from a long career in the military and government, Jay Stratton led the Pentagon’s UAP task force and spent nearly two decades looking into reports of alien life
- Now, in a new memoir and an interview with PEOPLE, he speaks out — describing an 80-year-long “disinformation campaign”
- He joined the Army while still in high school, thought he would become an infantryman, and eventually got promoted to become chief of air and space warfare for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
- He said that in 2005 he viewed a video of a black triangular craft with orange, white and yellow lights glowing on each corner. It moved silently before seeming to defy the laws of physics by accelerating faster than the eye could follow — and was gone.
- Changed his life.
- Was the first director of the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, created in 2020 to interact with Congress and service members pushing for transparency of the Federal government's attitude about UAP.
- Retired in 2022 at the age of 54.
- Says Stratton:
Stratton’s account of what he learned from classified files and from insiders willing to speak to him about the programs — which, he writes, involved sending covert special operations teams to recover and transport crashed UAP and non-human bodies — is startling.
And, yes, according to what Stratton says he learned in the course of his work, citing another insider, the much-discussed, much-mocked stories of a UAP crash in Roswell, N.M. — complete with dead extraterrestrials — are true.
Since 2022, Congress has held six hearings on UAPs that included two Navy pilots testifying about their own unexplained encounters.
In February, a presidential directive instructed federal agencies to identify, declassify and release evidence involving UAPs and non-human life to the public.
This documentary got 27/90 scores from Rotten Tomatoes. Can be rented from Amazon Prime.
Clearly, Stratton is a believer of aliens on Earth. Speilberg? I asked Google AI:
- Accumulated Evidence: He stated he is convinced aliens are here based on decades of circumstantial evidence, visual documentation, smartphone footage, U.S. Navy FLIR footage, and testimonies presented during congressional hearings on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).
- No Personal Sightings: Despite his firm belief, Spielberg admitted he has never personally seen a UFO or experienced a close encounter himself.
- Shift from Speculation: When he made Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, he viewed the concept mostly as science speculation, but he now says he is ready to "believe the believers" due to the overwhelming volume of reports and data. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
- Only got Rotten Tomatoes scores of 79/69.
- Can be streamed on Peacock.
- For the record, this movie takes the position that there is real evidence of alien presence, and the reason why the government has not released this information is that the public will panic about this truth.
- Watch the ending of this film.
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